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the old trucker:
grfishmaker you got too much time on your hands!!
the old trucker:
Grfishmaker & Houlio plus anyone else
I just got off a site called; ( http;//archives.cbc.ca/economy_business/manufacturing). Look over the site. I think under manufacturing and under business you should find a few old video clips about bombardiers & a couple about Mr. bombardier. Please let me know if you can't find it. Worked for me. Thanks.
the old trucker:
Grfishmaker I noticed in your reply # 8 that the little machine that's not a bombardier has a bar that looks like it's mounted to the center of the wheels. What would that be for.
Also in the second photo, @ the first of memorabilia do you know what model that is???
grfishmaker:
Good question. And the answer is "I don't know". My guess is that pehaps all the tires were tied together as part of the suspension. Maybe the middle wheel was simply an idler wheel and used to just hold up the track for tension. Like I say, this is just a guess. You certainly analyze the photos closer than me. Next you will want to know what is inside the wooden barrel in the picture below. lol
As for the machine with the man with the brief case standing beside it......I believe that this was perhaps a special order military machine. The only reason I say this is that we have one (it has since been modified to resemble a regular wide gauge). I have seen a photo somewhere of three machines like this parked together along with some army jeeps, so that is why I say this. The bombardier like this came to our town (late 40's?) was an ex-military machine used up on the Dew Line. For a while, it had the back wooden body widened to fit even with the tracks and the front cab part was left as is, like a narrow gauge. Probably looked like a big woodtick. As I said, it has since been modified again to look like a regular wide gauge. My dad always used to call it an "extra wide gauge" for some reason, so I don't know if the special order military made machines were oddball or not. I will measure the old girl sometime this spring; now that you got me curious.
Hey, you guys up in Cranberry should know something about this old-style design. What do you think?Even photos of these seem to be few and far between. I'm sure that if the old girl could talk, she could probably tell some very interesting tales.
houlio:
Hey there OT I checked out the CBC site that you mentioned. Good find - there were some interesting video clips there. Thanks for passing on the information.
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